Simply 14 fabulous Telegraph takedowns after it compared Nigel Farage to a ‘Brexit Icarus’
Not often we direct you to a think piece in the Daily Telegraph but on this occasion it’s hard to resist.
Nigel Farage is the Brexit Icarus. Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom | Hunter DuBose https://t.co/1V0c2ZWD7c
— Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) September 11, 2019
There was something about the analogy – Nigel Farage as a Brexit Icarus? – that struck people as not entirely right.
And these are our favourite 14 things people had to say about it.
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So nobody at the Telegraph knows what happened to Icarus. https://t.co/PUn2huqeSn
— Sarah Churchwell (@sarahchurchwell) September 11, 2019
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You are not going to be happy when you find out how the story of Icarus ends. https://t.co/h0GAnhQCqm
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) September 11, 2019
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Yes this is the perfect metaphor. The UK will fly out of the EU just like the very famously successful Icarus https://t.co/p3vCZFv8BG
— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) September 11, 2019
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Icarus made fake wings from feathers but when he got too close to the sun the wax binding them melted and his wings fell apart and he fell into the sea and drowned. It's a morality tale about hubris and lack of integrity. The @Telegraph grasps neither integrity or morality https://t.co/YofxDg0juO
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) September 11, 2019
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"I say, I like the cut of Icarus's jib. Makes his own wings out of wax and feathers, soars like some majestic eagle, top lad. I see no need to bother finding out how this yarn finishes before I employ it as an approving metaphor." https://t.co/ESVCWmkY5L
— Andrew Mueller (@andrew_mueller) September 11, 2019
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Icarus defied his expert father Daedalus, fell into the sea and died you half baked idiotic twerp. https://t.co/Q0yhPqfSVj
— Otto English (@Otto_English) September 11, 2019
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got some bad news about your waxy boy, my friend https://t.co/cPtlFialN1
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) September 11, 2019
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Icarus, he's the one who flew really close to the sun and then nothing bad happened right https://t.co/dx2aoWiRRO
— katie spalding (@supermathskid) September 11, 2019
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https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1171743694782943232
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https://twitter.com/gregianjohnson/status/1171735786322051072
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Er… Icarus died https://t.co/2Jtp2B8zVb
— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) September 11, 2019
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Show your ignorance peasants. Yes Icarus crashed and perished, but he hit the sea *outside* Cretian territorial waters AND his bloated carcass washed ashore on a Greek island where it enjoyed the freedom to be pecked at. https://t.co/jp8jeJnjKz
— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) September 11, 2019
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The Telegraph is now the broadsheet Icarus. Flying way too close to The Sun. https://t.co/ykKH79gJH0
— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) September 11, 2019
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